Subject: Re: Re:
To: Andrew Doran <ad@hairylemon.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: tech-x11
Date: 03/23/2005 08:44:10
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Hello,

>> This looks awfully like exposing a bunch of functions to userland and
>> let the driver decide which ones to accelerate by hardware... before 
>> we
>> know it we have half a GDI in the kernel.
>
> I wasn't being clear there, sorry. The reason I suggest the flag is so
> that the X server does not try to drive boards that actually require
> special code to display anything useful. It should have code to deal
> with them, but if it doesn't there's no harm in giving the user a
> helpful message instead of displaying garbage.

I guess I was a bit distracted when writing this - in my opinion we 
should at least hide some weirdnesses from the Xserver ( or better - 
from wsfb ), especially those the kernel can already handle on its own 
or which it could handle with minimal work.

have fun
Michael
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